Limiting provider taxes could save the U.S. $175 billion over 10 years, according to the House Budget Committee. These handouts from the federal government need to end.
House Republicans are calling for $1.5 trillion in spending cuts next year. Medicaid, the joint federal-state health plan established in 1965 to provide publicly funded health coverage to the poor and disabled, is reportedly where they’ll find much of that money.
Eliminating so-called “provider taxes,” which allow states to game Medicaid’s rules to extract more dollars from the federal government, is a great place for Republican reformers to start.
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Stop the Medicaid provider tax grift
Sally C. Pipes
Limiting provider taxes could save the U.S. $175 billion over 10 years, according to the House Budget Committee. These handouts from the federal government need to end.
House Republicans are calling for $1.5 trillion in spending cuts next year. Medicaid, the joint federal-state health plan established in 1965 to provide publicly funded health coverage to the poor and disabled, is reportedly where they’ll find much of that money.
Eliminating so-called “provider taxes,” which allow states to game Medicaid’s rules to extract more dollars from the federal government, is a great place for Republican reformers to start.
Read the op-ed.
Nothing contained in this blog is to be construed as necessarily reflecting the views of the Pacific Research Institute or as an attempt to thwart or aid the passage of any legislation.